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The illusion of moral decline.
Article in Nature, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
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Who cites it
8 citing papers in PubMed.
- The belief in a decline in cooperation in the USA and China.Communications psychology · 2026Article
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- Diverging Paths to the Self: The Distinct Psychological Roles of Nostalgia and Declinism in Personal Growth.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- The Improvement Default: People Presume Improvement When Lacking Information.Personality & social psychology bulletin · 2025Article
- Americans harbor much less favorable explicit sentiments toward young adults than toward older adults.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- What I didn't grow up with is dangerous: personal experience with a new technology or societal change reduces the belief that it corrupts youth.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Anecdotal evidence indicates that people believe that morality is declining
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Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.